Consider getting a copy of the Bishops Transcript - that might be easier to read, and may even have different information, just to confuse the issue. Persis ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jan Holmes" <tigerjan775@hotmail.com> To: <eng-east-yorks@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, April 05, 2008 9:57 AM Subject: Re: [ENG-EAST-YORKS] PLAXTON Cottingham > Thanks, I'll check Olive Tree, I might be lucky. > > The microfiche record is extremely difficult to read, I printed it out in > black on white and white on black, but I'm pretty sure it does say Charles > and not George (I have it in front of me now). I maybe should have asked > to see the original, but as both the IGI and I myself thought it was > Charles, I didn't think it worth looking. I did wonder if Charles could > have been godfather and they got the names mixed up, but it's likely that > in trying to prove he was out of the country and couldn't be the father, I > will also be proving he could equally not be godfather, as I'm sure that > George had siblings much closer to home who could fill the role!! > > Regards, > > Jan > > > >> From: persisndavid@talktalk.net> To: eng-east-yorks@rootsweb.com> Date: >> Sat, 5 Apr 2008 09:20:43 +0100> Subject: Re: [ENG-EAST-YORKS] PLAXTON >> Cottingham> > You are unlikely to find anything about the trip to Canada. >> As an English > colony, there was no need for records such as were kept >> for entry to the > USA. But have a look at Olive Tree Genealogy website - >> they specialise in > Canadian material of that period. Another >> possibility is that they > travelled through the USA to reach Canada. The >> lakes were used as roads, > with regular services along the coasts.> As >> to the names, have you checked the original record to see what is > >> recorded for the entry above? Sometimes the scribe used the same names > >> twice rather than the actual name, having lost his place copying up from >> > notes. I've done it myself when doing a transcription.> Persis> ----- >> Original Message ----- > From: "Jan Holmes" <tigerjan775@hotmail.com>> >> To: <eng-east-yorks@rootsweb.com>> Sent: Saturday, April 05! > , 2008 7:18 AM> Subject: Re: [ENG-EAST-YORKS] PLAXTON Cottingham> > > > Hi > Gillian,> >> > Thanks for the information. These baptisms tie in with what > I already > > have, and the death of Charles is certainly very > interesting. I had no > > idea before I noticed the ancestry connection > that Charles had left > > England, and the information you have given me > certainly ties in with > > everything I had known previously about him.> > >> > A search on the IGI brings up several children of Charles and Mary, > the > > latest being John in 1829. I have never had the need to search > anywhere > > other than England, but a further search of the IGI for > Ontario, Canada > > has a LDS member submitted baptism of a child of > Charles PLAXTON and Mary > > TRAIN in Barrie, Ontario in 1837. My trusty > genealogical friend Mapquest > > has a distance of 139 miles between > Simcoe where Charles died and Barrie > > where his seemingly last child > was born. Several thousand miles closer > > than Charles' own! > birth in Cottingham, so this seems very feasible.> >> > Do you (or do > es anyone else) know of a database where I could look up the > > voyage of > Charles, Mary and the children to Canada? It seems to have been > > in the > years between the baptisms of John in 1829 and Mary Ann in 1837. If > > I > could prove that it was before 1835 then I would also be certain that > > > Ellen was the daughter of George and Ellen and not the product of an > > > illicit affair between George's wife and his brother......!!!! My feeling > > > is that the vicar or whoever wrote up the notes made a mistake, but I > > > would like to prove this.> >> > Regards,> >> > Jan> >> >> >> >> From: > mtamas@telus.net> To: eng-east-yorks@rootsweb.com> Date: Fri, 4 Apr > >> > 2008 18:38:18 -0700> Subject: Re: [ENG-EAST-YORKS] PLAXTON Cottingham> > > > >> >From the IGI after looking at the Canadian death record....> > Charles > > >> PLAXTON, Christening: 13 Apr 1795, Cottingham, Yorks.> Father: Wm. > > >> PLAXTON> Mother: Elizabeth> Batch: C106642> > George PLAXTON, > >> > Christening: 11 Dec, 1808, Co! > ttingham, Yorks.> Father: William PLAXTON> > >> Mother: Elisabeth> Batch: > C106642> > Also in the same batch with same > >> parent's names...> Ann > PLAXTON, Christened 14 Apr, 1799> Hannah PLAXTON, > >> Christened 3 Apr > 1805> Mary PLAXTON, Christened 3 Mar 1790> Thomas > >> PLAXTON, Christened > 15 May 1811> Frances PLAXTON, Christened 2 Apr 1797> > >> John PLAXTON, > Christened 19 Apr 1802> Elizabeth PLAXTON, Christened 3 Aug > >> 1787> > William PLAXTON, Christened 12 Nov 1792> > Cheers,> Gill> > >> > > -------------------------------> To unsubscribe from the list, please > > >> send an email to ENG-EAST-YORKS-request@rootsweb.com with the word > >> > 'unsubs!> > cribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the > message> > > _________________________________________________________________> > The > next generation of Windows Live is here> > > http://www.windowslive.co.uk/get-live> >> > > -------------------------------> > To unsubscribe from the list, please > send an email to > > ENG! > -EAST-YORKS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > > > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message> >> >> > -- > > No > > virus found in this incoming message.> > Checked by AVG.> > Version: > > 7.5.519 / Virus Database: 269.22.5/1356 - Release Date: 4/2/2008 > > > > 16:14> >> > > > > -------------------------------> To unsubscribe from > > the list, please send an email to ENG-EAST-YORKS-request@rootsweb.com > > with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the > > body of the message > _________________________________________________________________ > The next generation of Windows Live is here > http://www.windowslive.co.uk/get-live > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ENG-EAST-YORKS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG. > Version: 7.5.519 / Virus Database: 269.22.5/1356 - Release Date: 4/2/2008 > 16:14 > >

Not something I even thought about....but I'll definitely look into it. Thanks a lot. Jan > From: persisndavid@talktalk.net> To: eng-east-yorks@rootsweb.com> Date: Sat, 5 Apr 2008 10:03:08 +0100> Subject: Re: [ENG-EAST-YORKS] PLAXTON Cottingham> > Consider getting a copy of the Bishops Transcript - that might be easier to > read, and may even have different information, just to confuse the issue.> Persis> _________________________________________________________________ Amazing prizes every hour with Live Search Big Snap http://www.bigsnapsearch.com